Pang vs. Twinge — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pang and Twinge
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Pang
A sudden sharp bodily pain
Hunger pangs.
Twinge
A sharp, sudden physical pain.
Pang
A sudden sharp feeling of emotional distress
A pang of guilt.
Twinge
A mental or emotional pain
A twinge of guilt.
Pang
To feel sharp bodily pains.
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Twinge
To feel or be the source of a twinge or twinges
My knee twinged as I stepped off the curb.
Pang
To feel pangs of distress.
Twinge
To cause to feel a twinge or twinges
His conscience twinged him.
Pang
A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe.
Twinge
(Obsolete) To tweak; pinch.
Pang
A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow.
Twinge
(transitive) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
Pang
(transitive) To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture.
Twinge
(transitive) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
Pang
A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.
Twinge
(intransitive) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain.
My side twinges.
Pang
To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.
Twinge
A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
Pang
A sudden sharp feeling;
Pangs of regret
She felt a stab of excitement
Twinges of conscience
Twinge
A sudden sharp pain.
I got a twinge in my arm.
Pang
A mental pain or distress;
A pang of conscience
Twinge
To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
When a man is past his sense,There's no way to reduce him thence,But twinging him by the ears or nose,Or laying on of heavy blows.
Pang
A sharp spasm of pain
Twinge
To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains.
The gnat . . . twinged him [the lion] till he made him tearhimself, and so mastered him.
Twinge
To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.
Twinge
A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.
A master that gives you . . . twinges by the ears.
Twinge
A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side.
Twinge
A sudden sharp feeling;
Pangs of regret
She felt a stab of excitement
Twinges of conscience
Twinge
A sharp stab of pain
Twinge
Cause a stinging pain;
The needle pricked his skin
Twinge
Feel a sudden sharp, local pain
Twinge
Squeeze tightly between the fingers;
He pinched her behind
She squeezed the bottle
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